Lucy Punch Set As The Female Lead In FX's Drama Pilot 'Powers'

EXCLUSIVE:Lucy Punch has been tapped as the female lead in the FX drama pilot Powers. Based on the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendisand Michael Avon Oeming, the project, written by Charles H. Eglee and to be directed by Michael Dinner, is a police procedural set in a world where superpowers are relatively common. It centers on two detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim (Punch), in a Homicide department that deals with cases involving “powers” (people with superpowers).

Eglee, Dinner, David Engel and Brian Bendis are executive producing for Sony Pictures TV and FX Prods. Filming is slated for mid-summer in Chicago. This marks a return to series television for the British-born Punch, whose first major U.S. role was on the CBS comedy The Class. She has been busy in features lately, appearing in Dinner for Schmucks and Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Punch, repped by WME, the Schiff Co. and U.K’s United Agents, will next be seen in Sony’s comedy Bad Teacher, which opens this weekend.

19 Comments

This involves Circle of Confusion. Their karma is very very bad. I will steer super clear of it.

Sour Lemon • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

Yes, because clearly The Walking Dead is a failure.

Bob • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

She’s so hot. Is Kyle Chandler still a possibility for the male lead?

randall • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

Her credits were superb, right up to this.

radiohedge • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

I see you’ve never read the comic.

Anonymous • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

I’ve only seen her in the Woody Allen movie (in which she took over from Nicole Kidman) and thought she was very good. She certainly held her own against Anthony Hopkins.

Kevin • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

Congrats to the worst part about “Dinner for Schmucks.” And that’s saying a LOT.

ILDC • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

“Amy Squirrel”? Really?

Williams • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

And why does Circle of Confusion have bad Karma?

The Great Kazoo • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

Because they lie to their clients and to everyone. Because they aren’t fit to wipe their own bottoms. Because poor creators that work with them never get the treatment they deserve.

The Karmic Debt coming their way is huge.

Garmack • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

You’re a bitter one, troll. How about providing examples?

danny • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

katee sackhoff should’ve played this role ,,, it was obvious the role was written for her,,,donno about this chick

schadenfreude • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

Katee Sackhoff looka lika man. Her best scene ever is when she got shot down cold by Jack Bauer on 24. Enough with the hype on her already.

Lambsilencer • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

That’s an odd choice somehow.

I would have much preferred Brea Grant, who was in the run as well.

Slappy san • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

I hope she cuts her hair. But considering who they cast as the other lead, who knows?

punch drunk • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

She is one funny girl. I saw “It’s not you, it’s me” a short she did a while back where she’s engaged and turns out she’s banged every guy in her small town and has to tell them all it’s over. Better seen than pitched by me. But truly funny.

She’s got great timing and she’s pretty. So few pretty girls are funny on film, they’re too busy making sure their expressions are always elegant and photogenic. She’s not afraid to look goofy.

Max Modine • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

That’s awesome she can be goofy. But the role is supposed to be a tough, sarcastic Tomboy (who is also funny but in a dark way.)

Fingers crossed…

ED • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

hey are courting Jason Patric with all the guns they have. If he says yes, this could be great. However, can anyone ever get him to work?

SHeryl C • on Jun 20, 2011 2:24 pm

I LOOOOOVE Jason Patric. He is without a doubt the most underrated actor in Hollywood. His work is exquisite. So detailed. I can’t imagine they could get him for this, but if they did, yet another feather in the FX hat for amazing programming and constantly surprising us.